On Horses and Men

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&si=epencjGWJFrlsYEz

The Great Mismatch

The Great Mismatch: How a Shrinking Workforce, AI, and Labor Reallocation Will Define the Next 15 Years in the United States.

https://www.hiringlab.org/2026/05/14/how-a-shrinking-workforce-ai-and-labor-reallocation-will-define-the-next-15-years/

Same (or worse) in W Europe: low birth rate; massive immigration; rise of AI. People are worried and the Far Right is on the march as a result. Unemployment is rising, for instance in France (over 8%) and in Britain (over 15% for graduates) - also because of misguided State policies. 

A Finnish IT engineer said that the only realistic solution was to give up on the idea of work for everyone, and have a universal wage paid to everybody, with some people working if they can and the other just sitting around, while the machines  do most of the work anyway - perhaps an optimistic view. He said himself that the problem, then, would be to keep all the idle masses occupied... And he did not say how he thought this could be paid for. 

Actual work, needed for improve living conditions, infrastructure, cultural & educational levels, etc. is there to do, however.  But per the Logic of the Capitalist Mode of Production, that work/labor is not worth doing...

This is what late-stage Capitalism, in absence of new venues of growth, entails.

May be Communism and the Central Planners need to be brought back.